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Story to Speech to Sale
Module 1: The 5 Step Process to Establishing a Speaking Platform
Introduction and Goal (3:11)
Step 1: Brainstorming for Topics Using The 3 P's (7:35)
Step 2: Recognize an Intended Transformation (1:36)
Step 3: Hone in on Ideal Listeners (2:31)
Step 4: Gauge Industry Interest (7:07)
Step 5: Establish a Unique Value Proposition (4:11)
Module 2: Your Story,The Core of Your Message
Introduction: Core and Supporting Stories (2:36)
Story Principle #1: Stakes (2:00)
Story Principle #2: Theme (1:31)
Story Principle #3: Organize (4:05)
Story Principle #4: Recreate (1:36)
Story Principle #5: YOU (1:20)
Uncovering Memorable Moments (4:33)
The Role of Significance: Internal, External, and Vision (5:55)
Module 3: Crafting a Message for Maximum Engagement
Storytelling vs Speaking: Whats the Difference? (5:04)
Determining Your Takeaway or Call to Action (3:04)
Speech Contents: Overview (3:46)
Introductions that Spark Engagement (3:27)
Speech Contents: Where Your Stories Fit (2:37)
Speech Contents: Proof of Expertise and Evidence (4:02)
Your Call to Action as Platform Building (9:51)
Structural Options for Your Presentation (5:59)
Module 4: Personal Branding / Where Business is Personal
Personal Branding Overview and Goal (3:05)
Key #1: Your Demo Reel (7:35)
Storytelling Shows and Video Demos (3:29)
Key #2: Your Speaker Website - Top 5 Components (12:45)
Additional 'Nice to Have' Website Components (5:17)
Key #3: Social Media in Platform Expansion (4:57)
Key #4: Print Me! Business Cards and Brochures (4:33)
Key #5: Your Secret Sauce (1:59)
Module 5: Finding Ideal Gigs and Leveraging Value
Intro: Knowing How Much to Charge (10:03)
Standard Fees for Speakers (4:43)
Factors that Influence Rates: Part 1 (8:56)
Factors the Influence Rates: Part 2 (7:07)
Calculating a Fee for Engagements (2:46)
Maximizing the Value of Your Engagements (7:11)
Top 10 Places Online to Find Paid Gigs (16:32)
Sample Upsell - Referral Letter
Module 6: Develop a System for Booking Gigs
Choose A Marketing Model (18:15)
Creating a Marketing Calendar (6:47)
The Sales Process (7:33)
Best Practices for Email and Getting Organized (12:49)
Bonus Module: Going Pro
Webinar Replay : TED Application, Tips and Tricks (82:37)
Webinar Replay: Booking Speaking Gigs (67:17)
Working with Speaker Bureaus (10:18)
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When somebody recognizes me, I'm always a little shocked—like, Wait, really?" Karlie Kloss says. "Hang on…me?" But the girl, it must be said, is noticeable, waving animatedly from a stool at One Lucky Duck, a raw-food shop in Manhattan's Chelsea Market, all six feet one inch of her unfolding like an elongated, enchanting dragonfly. Kloss and Joan Smalls have spent the day across the street being photographed by Steven Meisel, and you get the feeling that the two cover models, who together represent the new face of fashion, may just have to get used to being recognized.
Marc Jacobs has named a bag for Kloss. Smalls's feline frame was immortalized in this year's Pirelli calendar and in yellow jeans on a giant Calvin Klein billboard above Manhattan's Houston Street. These are the signs of certified critical-mass appeal, and yet to each, in her own way, it's all still somehow unexpected.
"Let's be honest," says Kloss. "I think it's the fact that I'm eight inches above the average person walking down the street. I'm somewhat in my own cloud." At 19, she already knows how to be disarmingly self-deprecating, but yes, let's be honest, it's not just her meteorological height that attracts attention. Kloss also happens to have the face of a fairy, with a small constellation of freckles on her right cheek, and the kinetic effervescence of a sprite.
Karlie Kloss
When Kloss was growing up in St. Louis, the discipline of ballet training provided a positive charge for her lightning-bolt limbs. "You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails," she says. "And that is how you tell a story, through movement." Her first shoot in New York, at 14, was with Arthur Elgort, who photographed her doing a split on a ballet bar.
She might look like a living line drawing—one encased in custom-made 3x1 pants, the first jeans she's ever had that actually touch the ground—but it took Kloss a long time to "own it," she says. "My sisters have always been these gorgeous glamazons, and I'm, like, this tall skinny stick in the family. And I still am the tall girl, even on the runways. Every time I see Karl Lagerfeld, he's always, like"—she puts on a German accent—" 'Karlie, have you stopped growing yet? Are you taller?' " She laughs loudly. "It used to be something that I really disliked about myself, being tall and lanky, but it turned out to be the greatest asset I have—how uniquely weird I am."
Anyone who has seen Joan Smalls stalk the runway like a warrior goddess might not think that she ever needed any kind of encouragement—but what she did need was the chance to convince others. "When I first started," Smalls says, "it never picked up for me, doing shows." That changed when Riccardo Tisci booked her to walk the Givenchy Couture runway exclusively at the 2010 fall collections. "He saw my potential," she says. "And it changed people's perspective."
She's now so well known for that regal mien that it's almost a surprise to discover just how playful she can be. After the shoot, when she's leaving the set, rocker-chic in a baseball jacket and Helmut Lang leather pants, Smalls rides down in the elevator with the assistants. Holding the door for them, she snaps her fingers, teasingly telling them to "C'mon, hurry, hurry, hurry!" before falling into a gale of giggles.
"People don't expect me to have a girly voice when they see me walk like that. They might not think that I'm funny," Smalls remarks. She pulls off the false eyelashes that were applied for the shoot and says, laughing, "I feel much better." But with her tilted, seductive eyes, she looks as though she's still wearing the fake lashes. Smalls, who grew up in the countryside of Puerto Rico, gets the "What is she?" question a lot. She takes out her iPhone to show the spectrum of skin shades in her family. (Her mother is a fair Puerto Rican; her father is black, from St. Thomas.) "I'm a little bit of everything," she says. "Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish."
But as if there were any doubt, the 23-year-old boricua proved her birthright on the shoot. "They put on Hector Lavoe, the famous Puerto Rican salsa singer, and I started dancing in my six-inch stilettos," she explains. "They had me jumping, I was dropping it to the floor, I was whipping the jacket in the air. But you have to have coordination, to know where the camera is, to make sure you give a good angle, because sometimes you do weird faces when you dance"—she illustrates, biting her lips and scrunching up her nose—"and you have to realize you're still working!"
For both Kloss and Smalls, making that kind of effort look perfectly effortless is all in a day's work. "I just have something to prove," Smalls says. "I know I'm representing a group—black, Latin, whatever you want to put me with—and I want to show that they are beautiful the way they are. I think that's really important for our youth to see. Fashion is part of our culture," she says. "And it's about more than just a pretty dress."
Hair by Oribe for Oribe Hair Care; hair color by Anthony Palermo for Anthonyleonardsalon.com; makeup by Pat McGrath for Cover Girl; manicure by Jin Soon Choi for Jin Soon Natural Hand and Foot Spa. Models: Joan Smalls at IMG; Karlie Kloss at Next Model Management. Produced by Steven Dam for PRODn at Art + Commerce. Digital capture: Dtouch. Photography assistants: Stanislav Komarovski, Christian MacDonald, Victor Gutierrez. Fashion assistants: Felicia Garcia-Rivera, Caroline Grosso. Jewelry assistant: Tina Huynh.

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Microsoft Sends Out Dueling Invitations for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Events
Microsoft is setting the tone for this holiday season by sending out two invitations for events that highlight the two critical products the company is releasing in time for the winter holidays.
The first event will take place on Oct. 25 in New York City; the press is invited to come "celebrate Windows 8," including a Microsoft Surface Reception. The Windows Phone team also sent out an invitation today, asking people to "meet Windows Phone 8." The event will take place in San Francisco on Oct. 29 at 10 am PT.
Neither invitation is a shocker, given that everyone knows that the two products are coming; Microsoft already asked folks to save the date for the New York event.
On the phone side, Samsung, HTC and Nokia have all unveiled Windows Phone 8 handsets, but have not given specific pricing or timing. Further, Microsoft has been holding back on some of the key features of the operating system, though it has announced a big architectural shift to use Windows, rather than Windows CE under the hood.
Meanwhile, the competition has hardly been standing still, with Apple launching the iPhone 5 and Samsung, HTC, Motorola and others announcing new Android devices.
On the Windows side, Microsoft has announced plans for Surface, but has yet to share key details on price.
AllThingsD's Ina Fried contributed to this report.


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Microsoft has changed its mind about a policy that made a lot of consumers angry. The company previously announced that if you purchased Office 2013 and the computer it was installed on failed, you were just out of luck. You would not be permitted to install Office on another computer. This was part of a push to encourage users to switch to the subscription model Microsoft Office Home Premium 365 , which costs $99 a year for a license good on up to five devices in your household. The one-time purchase products ranged from $140 to $400.
Now Microsoft says you can transfer your Office license to another computer that belongs to you or to another person's computer as long as both of you agree to the terms of use. You can still only license it to one computer at a time. If your computer fails or you just upgrade to a newer model, you can put the program on another computer. You're only allowed to do this every 90 days unless there's a hardware failure. This is effective immediately, so if you've already purchased Office 2013, your program is included.
The company says it's responding to consumer feedback (a polite way of saying "lots of angry people") and that a key ingredient to the company's success is listening to their customers.
So, if you're deciding between a single-license Office and the Office 365 Home Premium subscription, concern over losing Office for good if your computer crashes or is stolen, no longer has to factor in that choice. I'm in the trial period of Office 365 right now myself and this has certainly given me food for thought.
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'Heartless' has been writing stories almost her entire life. She loves to write and also read fantasy stories. When not writing she will be playing with her five cats, gaming, or creating various arts and crafts. She currently lives in Columbus,OH USA.
Thanks for being with us today Miss Steffany! Can you tell us…when did you start writing?
I'd say I've been writing since third grade. If I wasn't writing stories down I always had at least a dozen that I would be constantly making up in my mind. By my late teen years I was very dedicated to writing stories that I actually wanted to make into books.
3rd grade, wow! So, can you tell us more about your latest book?
My latest book is Cella, A Tale of Cinderella (book 1 in Fairy Tales Retold). It is the story of Cinderella but told my way.
I do love a good fairy tale. Tell us about your main characters, are they people you would be friends with in real life?
The main characters are, of course, Cinderella, and also Prince Royal and the pirate Starling. Cinderella is who the story revolves around. She's a really sweet, kind girl. She is loved by everyone except for those who are jealous of her and the queen – but that is because of petty reasons. She's hardworking and honest and really can't understand how so many bad things can happen in her life. Prince Royal is rather free-spirited. He loves sailing the oceans and would spend all of his time on a boat if his parents would allow it. They want him to remain at home and finally decide to force him to marry, thinking that it would make him finally settle down and start to take on the duties of a prince. Starling is the first mate on the pirate ship that Cinderella gets captured by after her banishment from the kingdom. He doesn't really behave as all of the other pirates do. That is mostly because the captain raised him properly, making sure that he had a very good education. He is very caring of others, though he does prefer to be alone. Regardless, he is the best pirate on the ship with no one being able to best him in a fight. I would be friends with any of my characters. In many ways they already seem like my friends with how much time I spend in creating them.
Sounds very fascinating! Can you share with us where the inspiration behind your writing comes from?
Inspiration comes in many forms for me; from the people in my life, my pets, books/movies, and music. I find music though to probably be the most inspirational.
I agree. I could not write without my music. What has been the most rewarding part of your writing journey so far?
The satisfaction I get when I complete a story and hearing how much people like my books when they read them.
Have you ever thought if your book became a movie, what the opening song would be?
That's tough.
So what are your top five favorite books?
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien is unparalleled and is hands down my favorite book. There's so many others that I like so it is very hard to narrow it down, but I suppose the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, The Scarlet Pimpernel series by Baroness Orczy, The Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, and The Myst Trilogy by Rand and Robin Miller. Though that is technically more than five books you really can't read one without reading all the others.
We have some of the same favorites! I do love my C.S. Lewis. Steffany, do you have any advice for budding writers?
Write what about what you have the most interest in. If you try to write what is "popular" or just something that isn't really appealing to you, your readers are going to be able to tell. Writing should be fun and the end product should make you proud. Most importantly don't be offended by constructive criticism, if you take the advice it will only make you a better writer.
Great advice Steffany, thank you! What can we expect to see from you in the future and where can we find your work?
I am currently working on the second book in Fairy Tales Retold which will be Rain and Snow, A Tale of Snow White. And my next fantasy novel is Albino Demon. My books are available on amazon for the kindle or in paperback. Though I will be making them available for the nook shortly.
Before we hit our lightening round…a fun question has to be thrown your way! If you could choose any Author, living or dead, to read your book, who would you choose and why?
I would have to pick J.R.R. Tolkien. I have never been able to find another author that comes close to being as great as he was. His work is amazing. I wish I had a fraction of the imagination and skill he possessed to create such masterpieces. I would have loved to be able to get his comments on the things that I write.
Excellent choice, Steffany…now hold on tight, it's time for our Rapid-Fire Questions!
Chocolate or Wine? Chocolate. I've actually never yet tried wine so it could possibly replace chocolate. I'm not really that much of a chocoholic.
eReader or Paperback? A year ago I would have said paperback, but now I would probably pick ereader. If I like the book enough I will get it in paperback/hardback though.
Shower or Bath? Shower. I like to spend as little time as possible in the bathroom.
Bra or No Bra? Bra.
Beach or Pool? Pool, if it's private. But I've actually never been to the beach so perhaps I would like it better, though I prefer seclusion.
Heels or Flats? Flats. The flatter the better, my feet revolt when put in heels.
Sweet or Sour? I think I have to go with sweet even though I love sour.
A Partner That Does Laundry or A Partner That Gives Massages? Why not both? Probably laundry though because that is my least favorite thing to do.
Thanks for joining us today, Steffany! You can find Steffany on Facebook and Amazon or follow her Blog.
Please read on for more info about Steffany's latest book! Happy Reading!
Cinderella is an ordinary girl living with her parents at their bakery and working at the palace. She thinks her dreams are coming true when she meets the prince and he asks her to marry him. But one day she gets accused of stealing from the queen and the king has her banished to the prison island. However, Cinderella never makes it there because her ship is looted by pirates and she is taken as their prisoner. Meanwhile the prince is doing everything in his power to prove that Cinderella is innocent and have her sentence reversed. Will Cinderella ever get a happy ending and be able to be with the one she truly loves?
Find Cella, A Tale of Cinderella on Amazon today! 🙂


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Some familiar faces could be returning to WWE in the coming months as there has been a push from several top talents for the organization to bring back some "solid hand" wrestlers that were previously released.
With the lack of depth on the main roster, PWInsider reports that WWE officials are giving serious consideration to the suggestion. Individuals they have in mind would be of the mid-card variety to assist younger talent, as well as provide solid performances for the company.
There is a short list of potential names WWE is interested in, but no one has been contacted yet.
Source: PWInsider


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Sanket (!..Live to Give..!) 23 August 2012
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Vandana Mulchandani (Finance Manager ) 23 August 2012
Wonderful sharing Sanket....very inspiring and motivating.......need of the hour.
There are two great days in a person's life : the day we are born and
the day we discover why we are born
- W.Churchil.
Parashar (Company Secretary 2004) 23 August 2012
CA Madhvi (...Blissful...) 23 August 2012
Thanks for Sharing!!!
Karthikeyan (CA Final) 23 August 2012
Great one ... i like it
Ankur Garg (Company Secretary and Compliance Officer) 23 August 2012
Thanks Sanket for sharing such wonderful picture. Really these pictures are full of life and positivity. Keep posting !!!
Dear Sanket,
All your thoughts were quite inspiring. They all were based on one message : "Life is short, live it".
When I heard your title, a famous poem (Bhaja Govindam, Bhaja Govindam, Govindam Bhaja, Mudha mate) written by Adi Shankaracharya came into my mind. This poem gives the message, "life is short...Bhaja Govindam". I reproduce the English translation of this Sanskrit poem. I hope, you will appreciate the message behind it :
1 Seek Govinda, Seek Govinda,
Seek Govinda, O Fool!
When the appointed times comes (death),
grammar rules surely will not save you.
2 O Fool! Give up the thirst to possess wealth.
Create in your mind, devoid of passions,
thoughts of the Reality.
With whatever you get, entertain your mind, be content.
3 Seeing the full bosom of young maidens and their navel,
do not fall a prey to maddening delusion.
This is but a modification of flesh and fat.
Think well thus in your mind again and again.
4 The water drop playing on a lotus petal has an extremely uncertain existence;
so also is life ever unstable.
Understand, the very world is consumed by disease and conceit,
and is riddled with pangs.
5 As long as there is the ability to earn and save,
so long are all your dependants attached to you.
Later on, when you come tolive with an old, infirm body,
no one at home cares to speak even a word with you!!
6 As long as there dwells breath in the body,
so long they enquire of your welfare at home.
Once the breath leaves, the body decays,
even the wife fears that very same body.
7 So long as one is in one's boyhood, one is attached to play,
so long as one is in youth, one is attached to one's own young woman;
so long as one is in old age, one is attached to anxiety,
yet no one, alas to the Supreme Brahman, is ever seen attached.
8 Who is your wife? Who is your son?
Supremely wonderful indeed is this samsara.
Of whom are you? From where have you come?
O brother, think of that Truth here.
9 Through the company of the good, there arises non-attachment;
through non-attachment there arises freedom from delusion;
when there is freedom from delusion, there is the Immutable Reality;
on experiencing the Immutable Reality, there comes the state of 'liberated-in-life'.
10 When youthfulness has passed, where is lust and its play?
When water is evaporated, where is the lake?
When the wealth is reduced, where is the retinue?
When the Truth is realised, where is samsara?
11 Take no pride in your possession, in the people at your command, in the youthfulness that you have.
Time loots away all these in a moment.
Leaving aside all these, after knowing their illusory nature,
realize the state of Brahman and enter into it.
12 Day and night, dawn and dusk, winter and spring,
again and again come and depart.
Time sports and life ebbs away.
And yet, one leaves not the gusts of desires.
13 O Distracted One! Why worry about wife, wealth?
Is there not for you the One who ordains?
In the three worlds it is the association-with-good-people alone
that can serve as a boat to cross the sea of change, birth and death.
14 One ascetic with matted locks, one with shaven head,
one with hairs pulled out one by one, another parading in his ochre robes
– these are fools who, though seeing, do not see.
Indeed, these different disguises or apparels are only for their belly's sake.
15 The body has become worn out. The head has turned grey.
The mouth has become toothless.
The old man moves about leaning on his staff.
Even then he leaves not the bundle of his desires.
16 In front the fire, at the back the sun, late at night he sits with hisknees held to his chin;
he receives alms in his own scooped palm and
lives under the shelter of some tree,
and yet the noose of desires spares him not!
17 One may, in pilgrimage, go to where the Ganges meets the ocean, called the Gangasagar,
or observe vows, or distribute gifts away in charity.
If he is devoid of first-hand-experience-of-the-Truth,
according to all schools of thought, he gains no release, even in a hundred lives
18 Sheltering in temples, under some trees,
sleeping on the naked ground, wearing a deerskin,
and thus renouncing all idea-of-possession and thirst-to-enjoy,
to whom will not dispassion bring happiness?
19 Let one revel in Yoga or let him revel in Bhoga.
Let one seek enjoyment in company or
let him revel in solitude away from the crowd.
He whose mind revels in Brahman,
he enjoys, verily, he alone enjoys.
20 To one who has studied the Bhagavad Gita even a little,
who has sipped at least a drop of Ganges-water,
who has worshipped at least one Lord Muraari,
to him there is no quarrel with Yama, the Lord of Death.
21 Again birth, again death, and again lying in mother's womb –
this samsara process is very hard to cross over.
Save me O destroyer of Mura (Lord Krishna),
through Thy infinite kindness.
22 The Yogin who wears but a godadi (shawl made of rags),
who walks the path that is beyond merit and demerit,
whose mind is joined in perfect Yoga with its goal,
he revels (in God-consciousness) – and lives thereafter – as a child or as a madman.
23 Who are you? Who am I? From where did I come?
Who is my mother? Who is my father?
Thus enquire, leaving aside the entire world-of-experience,
essenceless and a mere dreamland, born of imagination.
24 In you, in me and in all other places too there is but one All-Pervading Reality.
Being impatient, you are unnecessarily getting angry with me.
If you want to attain soon the Vishnu-status,
be equal-minded in all circumstances.
25 Strive not, waste not your energy to fight against or to make
friends with your enemy, friend, son or relative.
Seeking the Self everywhere,
lift the sense-of-difference born out of 'ignorance'.
26 Leaving desire, anger, greed and delusion,
the seeker sees in the Self 'He Am I'.
They are fools those who have not Self-knowledge,
and they consequently, as a captive in hell, are tortured.
27 The Bhagavad Gita and Sahasranama are to be chanted;
always the form of the Lord of Lakshmi is to be meditated upon;
the mind is to be led towards the company of the good;
wealth is to be shared with the needy.
28. Very readily one indulges in carnal pleasures;
later on, alas, come diseases of the body.
Even though in the world the ultimate end is death,
even then man leaves not his sinful behaviour.
29 'Wealth is calamitous', thus reflect constantly:
the truth is that there is no happiness at all to be got from it.
To the rich, there is fear even from his own son.
This is the way with wealth everywhere.
30 The control of all activities,
the sense-withdrawal, the reflection, along with japa
and the practice of reaching the total-inner- silence
– these, perform with care, with great care.
31 O Devotee of the lotus-feet of the teacher!
May you become liberated soon from the samsara through the discipline of the
sense-organs and the mind. You will come to experience the
Lord that dwells in your own heart.
Veeral Gandhi
Sanket (!..Live to Give..!) 23 August 2012
@ Veeral Gandhi.... Thankx for the beautiful Poem......
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Sunday Brunch: Croissant Bread Pudding Recipe
It's Super Bowl Sunday, so I tried to come up with a Sunday Brunch recipe that would hold you until the big game starts just after 6 p.m. ET. Ina Garten's croissant bread pudding, adapted from her very first cookbook, The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, is easy to make and insanely rich, so it will fill you up until kick-off. And you know what? This recipe is good enough to use whenever you have company coming over for brunch, whether it's Super Bowl Sunday or not.
(Note: This dish is also a terrific dessert to be served any time day or night.)
- Yield:8 to 10
- 8 extra-large eggs
- 8 extra-large egg yolks
- 5 cups half-and-half
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 6 croissants, preferably stale
- 1 cup raisins
Preheat the oven to 350°F.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the whole eggs, yolks, half-and-half, sugar and vanilla. Set the custard mixture aside.
Slice the croissants in half, horizontally. In a 10-by-15-by-2 1/2-inch oval baking dish, distribute the bottoms of the croissants, then add the raisins, then the tops of the croissants (brown side up), being sure the raisins are between the layers of croissants or they will burn while baking. Pour the custard over the croissants and allow to soak for 10 minutes, pressing down gently.
Place the pan in a larger one filled with an inch of hot water. Cover the larger pan with aluminum foil, tenting the foil so it doesn't touch the pudding. Cut a few holes in the foil to allow steam to escape.
Bake for 45 minutes. Uncover and bake for 40 to 45 minutes or until the pudding puffs up and the custard is set.
Remove from the oven and cool slightly.
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Union leader Paul Howes has likened nanotechnology to asbestos and called for more research to ease fears the growing use of fine particles could endanger manufacturing workers.
''I don't want to make the mistake that my predecessors made by not worrying about asbestos,'' the Australian Workers' Union national secretary said.
Substances called nanomaterials - measuring between one and 100 nanometres, a fraction of the width of a human hair - are used to make products such as non-scratching car wax, some types of paint, lighter sporting equipment, and self-cleaning coatings for glass and building materials.
Scientists believe nanotechnology holds the potential to improve water purification, medical treatments, solar power efficiency, engineering manufacturing processes and security screening.
While the national science agency CSIRO says nanomaterials can be useful because they often have different properties from larger particles of the same substance, it is also researching whether some nanomaterials may harm human health and the environment. This follows a pilot study published in Nature Nanotechnology in 2008 suggesting that types of carbon nanotubes may behave like asbestos fibres and cause disease when injected into the abdominal cavity of mice.
Mr Howes said nanotechnology was present in high-performance manufacturing enterprises that used chemicals and applications that were enhanced by it. He was worried nanotechnology could be used to carry carcinogenic particles and believed it needed proper regulation and more research.
''What I fear with nanotechnology is that it's starting to spread everywhere through Australian industry … I think about what my predecessors did when asbestos first became widely used in Australia and all of a sudden it appeared in every workplace and household in Australia,'' he said.
''No one knew about the dangers of it; everyone thought it was this miracle fibre that could be used for anything and it was going to transform Australia. Lo and behold, it also kills you.
''It may not be the case that nanotechnology's going to do that but what I fear is that it may, and we could be dealing with that type of asbestos-style issue in the future.''
The co-ordinator of the research network NanoSafe Australia, Associate Professor Paul Wright, said there were still only a small number of nanotechnology products on the market but safety and research were a central focus.
''To make general statements about nanotechnology, it's important to realise there are many materials that nanoparticles are being made from and that appropriate testing and risk assessment has to be done for any of these materials that are being taken further in the development,'' he said. ''This whole field is being developed with safety as one of the aspects.''
Professor Wright, who has prepared reports for Safe Work Australia, said research into nano-sunscreens had found the particles to be very effective but also ''of no more toxicity than the other components that are used''.
It may not be the case that nanotechnology's going to do that but what I fear is that it may, and we could be dealing with that type of asbestos-style issue in the future.
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Rising tide: Nearby renovations float this boat
ADDRESS: 1110 Page Street
NEIGHBORHOOD: 10th and Page
SIZE: 1,207 fin. square feet
LAND: .12 acres
CURB APPEAL: 7 out of 10
LISTED BY: Mildred Morris of Prudential Charlotte Ramsey Realtors 981-2599
An old real estate adage says never buy the most expensive house on the block. It's a bit tricky to apply that advice to this stucco two-story built in 1920. On the one hand, its $155,000 asking price is somewhat lower than the price of new houses around it and down at the corner of 10th Street. On the other hand, necessary repairs could boost the total cost to significantly higher than theirs.
What will a new owner have to work with? The house sits on a deep lot, unlike the new houses jammed in cheek by jowl across the street. The lot backs up to woods that the agent claims are unlikely to be developed, which is saying a lot in a city where every vacant square inch seems fair game for a condo or two.
While no structural inspection has been done, glances reveal cracks in the stucco and floors pulling away from walls (there's a distinct tilt to the second story). Right now the first floor is warmed by a gas space heater and the second by baseboard electric. The agent says the electrical and heating systems need upgrading. Under the wall-to-wall in all the rooms except the kitchen and entryway is plywood, not hardwood flooring. Too bad.
So there's a lot of work to be done. What's the potential payoff?
Obviously, that depends on the extent of the new owner's needs, imagination– and line of credit. Until recently, the house was rented, so it's possible to live in it now as is.
The front door opens to an unexpectedly large entryway with an opposite door leading to a long porch. Another door from the porch opens to the kitchen. (All the appliances in the kitchen convey.) It's easy to imagine enclosing the porch with its bright eastern exposure to create a spacious sunroom with views to the woods.
A large living room leads to a dining room of equal size, both with fireplaces now bricked in, the chimney used only to service the living room gas heater. One of the best things about these rooms– and, indeed, the whole house– is the windows, large two-over-twos that seem to stretch almost from floor to ceiling, admitting maximum light and enlarging the space significantly.
Upstairs are two good-sized and one small bedroom (suitable for a nursery or sewing room) and an old-timey bath with claw-foot tub.
Because the street is a dead-end, there's virtually no traffic, and because the new houses across the street are elevated above the street, privacy is part of the deal. Houses on either side are farther away than neighboring houses in some new subdivisions, which also contributes to a feeling of tranquility.
If money were no object, we could recommend this house to a renovator with elaborate plans, because the resulting house would not be out of place in this renewing neighborhood and the location is primo if you're a UVA type. People of limited means can live in the house now as is and make upgrades incrementally as finances allow.
What else is available in town to buyers in this range? We looked at a duplex on Rosa Terrace with some of the same virtues– dead-end street, woods in the rear, $145,000 asking price, convenience to the hospital. There are a few condos, two or three duplexes, a couple of houses in Orangedale, and a few in Belmont. Many of them seem to be in the same condition as this house– needing work. (Cynics may say that explains the price tag.)
So what would recommend this one over the others? Probably the striking renewal going on around it, which cannot help but increase the value of this parcel even without renovations. Even if the real estate hurricane drops back to a category one, the neighborhood's rising tide of renovation and rebuilding might float this boat to a higher asking price next year.
And while the new buyer is waiting for the inevitable appreciation, it's a convenient place to live, not without a certain charm, even in its not-quite-ready-for-the-Parade of Homes condition.


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These oniony potato cups are a nice switch from the usual side dishes. I sometimes add cheese to the cups for a tasty twist. Either way, they're savory and satisfying. I use green onions when I want a bit more color.—Cheryl Norwood, Canton, Georgia
Total TimePrep/Total Time: 30 min.
Makes6 servings
- 1 large sweet onion
- 1-1/2 cups frozen shredded hash brown potatoes, thawed
- 4 teaspoons beef bouillon granules
- 2 tablespoons butter
- Pepper to taste
- Minced fresh parsley, optional
- Cut onion in half widthwise; remove ends and outside skin. Separate onion into layers; select six to fit lightly greased muffin cups. Finely dice remaining onion; place in a bowl. Add hash browns and bouillon. Soon into onion cups; dot with butter. Bake at 375° for 18-20 minutes or until tender. Sprinkle with pepper and parsley if desired.
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Now PFT has weighed in on this story from jsonline this morning by Don Walker. Read here.
I share Steve's concerns re this situation and I don't think Mike Florio's too far off here either. I'm just not sure myself what Mike Wood could have possibly said to just get canned like this – especially after 22 years. Outside of threatening someone, I just can't imagine. And this from a guy who works with termination/employment issues daily. Even if he said something about laying an egg – that's not can-worthy, as it were.
But what strikes me most about this incident is that Mike McCarthy has no problem "holding Mike Wood accountable" for some comments that weren't offensive and yet he doesn't just bench Colledge, Clifton, Lang, Barbre when they're seemingly trying to get Rodgers sacked. Or he doesn't say a word to Johnny Jolly after Jolly's bonehead penalty seriously affected the Vikings' game. Or he doesn't say a word to AJ Hawk after Hawk's defensive holding penalty kept a critical Bucs' drive alive. Or, he doesn't say a word to the officials when phantom calls at critical times derail our momentum. Or, he doesn't call out (or simply fire) Shawn Slocum and James Campen for directing respectively, the worst special teams and offensive line units in the NFL. Or he doesn't take enough ownership of his own errors and how they contribute to our losses.
My one hope right now is because this week has been an emotional one, some of this emotion can carry over to the game on Sunday. This team is fractured. Over time, McCarthy has taken an increasingly compartmentalized approach, due in part to his hyper focus on all things offense. This team needs a central figure to rally around. It needs a head coach who takes an active role in all the big TEAM decisions – not just the offensive ones. Hopefully, the emotion of these last two losses (you know it's emotional when Driver's calling people out) coupled with the heightened sense of urgency the players have developed can bring these guys together for the common goal of winning. While my never-ending Packer optimism cringes as I write this – I'd say quite simply, this game is the season.


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Virtualization has come a long way since VMware first introduced VMware Workstation in 1999. The product was initially designed to ease software development and testing by partitioning a workstation into multiple virtual machines. Nearly seven years later, VMware Workstation has gone through several transformations, and the technology is no longer relegated to the niche product market.
Instead, it is quickly becoming the preferred way to manage server resources, as more OEMs and ISVs add server virtualization technology to their offerings.
"The big news is the broad buy-in of virtual machine technology for server consolidation," says Pauline Nist, senior vice president for product development & management at Penguin Computing.
That growth, however, is not limited to servers. Virtualization is actually starting to spread across the entire infrastructure.
"Today, IBM virtualization technology can virtualize almost 80 percent of a business's IT infrastructure across not only servers but networking and storage devices as well," says Richard Lechner, IBM's vice president for virtualization.
The main concern for most companies is how to virtualize their current servers and applications. This will get increasingly easier as vendors update their virtualization offerings.
VMware, which was acquired by EMC in 2005, remains the largest player in the market. But what was once a lonely frontier is now a well-populated community. There is the open source Xen project, as well as IBM's Virtualization Engine 2.0, Microsoft's Virtual Server 2005, SWSoft's Virtuozzo, and Virtual Iron Software's Virtual Iron 2.0.
"The virtual machine software market space has seen a substantial amount of evolution, with the Xen technology bringing forward the concept of an integrated open source virtualization layer," says IDC research director, system software, Al Gillen. "However, other vendors, such as Microsoft, are seeing hardware virtualization as an important technology, [and] that will be integrated directly into the Windows product portfolio in the future."
And indeed it is. In 2005, Intel and AMD began building virtualization support into their boxes. In February 2006, Intel released its first products along this line, and AMD expects all of its CPUs to support the company's virtualization technology by the mid-year.
"We will continue to see a lot more investment by AMD and Intel in virtualization Hypervisor layer in order to accelerate performance," says IDC analyst John Humphreys.
In addition, IBM, Novell, Oracle, and other software vendors have started shipping prebuilt virtual appliances.
"Virtual appliances are entire pre-configured systems that include virtual hardware, operating system, and pre-installed software application," says Raghu Raghuram, VMware vice president of platform products. "Virtual appliances save customers the time and effort to install and configure software."
Although these developments will continue to ease server virtualization down the road, the main concern for most companies is how to virtualize their current servers and applications. This will get increasingly easier as vendors update their virtualization offerings.
Adoption Curve
According to Humphreys, the biggest news in server virtualization is how quickly it is being adopted, particularly for server consolidation.
"Customers are surprised by how much of the production environment is virtual," he says. "Once the concept is adopted in an organization, it moves rapidly."
"We expect both the rate of customer adoption and ecosystem building to accelerate even further in 2006. Concurrent with accelerated customer adoption, hardware vendors, OEMs, and software vendors are aggressively building products and solutions that enable and facilitate server virtualization." Raghu Raghuram, vice president of platform products, VMware
Leading the way in this area is VMware. Already the market leader, it doubled its server virtualization customer base in 2005. Even more significant, according to Raghuram, a quarter of its customers have standardized on VMware so the new workloads run in a virtualized environment by default. In addition, they have graduated to using virtualization for more than just server consolidation.
"The overwhelming majority of VMware customers have moved beyond simple server partitioning and implement advanced solutions based on virtualization such as disaster recovery and business continuity," says Raghuram.
To further spread the adoption of its products, on February 6, 2006 VMware released the successor to its GSX server in the form of a free entry-level version, called VMware Server. In the first week alone, it was downloaded about 100,000 times.
"VMware Server is a great way for companies to educate themselves on the benefits of server virtualization," says Raghuram. "Based on our track record, we expect many of these customers to adopt our enterprise-class Virtual Infrastructure."
The company continues to upgrade its existing products. Last October, it released VMware ESX Server 3 and VirtualCenter 2 in addition to two new products: Distributed Resource Scheduling, which is used for automatically balancing workloads across computing resources, and Distributed Availability Services, which automatically restarts virtual machines on a different host when one host fails.
Mix and Match
VMware may have been first out the gate, but its success has attracted the heavyweights to the increasingly lucrative virtualization space. IBM, Dell, and HP, for example, each have server virtualization capabilities available.
IBM takes the same approach to virtualization as it does to other aspects of IT developing its own products and services while integrating with anything else on the market. Last October, it released the Wizard Virtualization Capabilities for Unix servers. With this, administrators just need three mouse clicks to create a micro-partition on IBM p5 systems for running AIX 5L or Linux virtual machines. In the past year, IBM also released its Virtualization Engine 2.0 for its pSeries, iSeries, and zSeries, including the new System z9. Its eServer xSeries and BladeCenter systems, however, are designed to work with VMware's products.
"By virtualizing storage and server infrastructure, customers are moving away from a stove-piped approach to viewing and managing islands of data and can create a more integrated IT environment," says Lechner. "Some 60 percent to 65 percent of IBM's customers taking advantage of server and storage virtualization are small and medium sized businesses of less than 1,000 employees."
The company is also working on other aspects to make it easier for organizations to fully virtualize IT systems. It has a testing and certification program for ISVs called the "Ready for Virtualization" program. In January, it acquired CIMS Lab, which produces software for tracking resource utilization across a virtualized environment, including servers, storage, e-mail, networks, databases, applications, and operating systems. It then converts the raw usage data into financial information.
Virtual Iron, on the other hand, takes the approach of virtualizing the entire x86-based Linux data center, rather than looking at it on a server-by-server basis. In addition to servers, the software manages the storage and networking.
"VMware's mission is focused on improving the utilization of individual servers and consolidating servers," says Mike Grandinetti, Virtual Iron's chief marketing officer. "Virtual Iron's mission is to streamline and automate the operation of the data center, which includes improving utilization."
Last year, the company released Virtual Iron 2.0, which added support for single- and dual-core AMD Opteron processors as well as IBM BladeCenter Servers. When one of the IBM blades fails, the Virtual Iron software automatically moves the applications to another server. Additional memory or processors can be added to a server on the fly, without interrupting running processes. This summer, Virtual Iron plans to introduce support for Windows servers.
"With the software, users can create virtualized pools of data center resources that can be dynamically allocated on an as-needed basis via a GUI management console and automated policies," says Grandinetti. "In the Virtual Iron environment, any application can run on any machine, or be moved to any other machine without disrupting the application or requiring time-consuming SAN or network configuration changes."
Visualizing Virtual Vistas
While 2005 was a record-breaking year for virtualization, 2006 promises to be even better. "We expect both the rate of customer adoption and ecosystem building to accelerate even further in 2006," says VMware's Raghuram. "Concurrent with accelerated customer adoption, hardware vendors, OEMs, and software vendors are aggressively building products and solutions that enable and facilitate server virtualization."
Looking still further down the road, IDC's Gillen says virtualization will cease being a stand-alone technology and will instead become a value-added feature of other products.
"Server virtualization, meaning virtual machine software as well as related partitioning technologies, will move to become an integrated component of all compute infrastructures," he says.


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Can't decide between a sweet or a salty snack? This mix blends both flavors!
Preparation Time: 15 mins
Cooking Time: 30 mins
Extra Time: 30 mins
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Yield: 15 x 1/2 cup servings
Preheat oven to 350ºF if baking 15 to 20 minutes, and 300ºF for slower baking for 45 to 60 minutes (slow baking takes more time but deepens the flavor). Lightly coat bottom of two baking sheets and set aside.
In a large bowl, mix together the cereal, pretzels, nuts, and seeds until well combined. Stir in the turmeric until evenly distributed. Stir in the dried fruit.
To thin its consistency, gently warm the honey in a measuring cup in the microwave or on the stove top using a small saucepan containing hot water. Slowly add just enough of the honey into the cereal mixture, stirring constantly, until the mixture begins to adhere and form clusters.
Spread the mixture on the baking sheets in a thin layer. Spray with canola oil spray. Bake until cereal is lightly browned, stirring once if baking at 350ºF, or 3 to 4 times if slow roasting at 300ºF.
Remove from oven and cool on a rack. Serve immediately or store (in a sealed container or in zip-lock plastic bags).
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Delta Air Lines hosted the Atlanta chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen's annual Tuskegee Airmen Aviation Career Training Program (T.A.A.C.T.) last week for 27 students at their Atlanta Headquarters.
"I had an eighth grade teacher and she piqued my interest in aviation," said Amber Willilt, a 15-year-old Henry County High School student. "I had never really thought about it as a career or participating in it at all. [My teacher] used to give us flyers and emails and she emailed this information to me about this camp and I decided I wanted to participate. I love it. I can't explain; I love everything about aviation the people, the community and the industry."
Students who ranged from eighth grade to seniors in high school came from all over the metropolitan Atlanta area to participate.
"First time in the camp," said Darryl Pridgen, a 14-year-old home schooled student." I didn't want to come at first, but I found it interesting."
That interest is what retired Captain John M. Bailey, Jr., Chairman of Youth Development for the Atlanta Chapter of Tuskegee Airmen, said the program is intended to create and foster.
"The goal of the program is to get a new generation in the African American and female community more into aviation," said Bailey. "They don't have to be pilots. It's a career program exposing them to all careers in aviation, military, corporate and airlines."
Once the program is over Bailey said students are still monitored by the Atlanta Chapter Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. on their improvement.
"Once they are in their careers the monitoring will probably stop," he said.
The students started the day in pilot simulators inside Delta headquarters. The simulators allowed each student to get the feeling of taking off and landing a plane during day or night along with various weather conditions.
"It's the most realistic thing you can ever imagine other than going into an actual aircraft," said Chris Keyes, a flight operations intern for Delta. "They are not taking away from revenue passengers or paying passengers."
Pilot Jared Hodge showed the students a part of Delta that is rarely seen by the public, the Operations and Customer Center (OCC) where Delta is operated. The OCC is the hub of Delta flights where employees check weather patterns and monitor domestic and international flights in the air.
In addition to the flight simulators, the students also got to see the Delta social media lab, which was created three years ago. The media lab is where employees monitor and respond to Delta's various social media platforms including Twitter and Facebook.
Around noon, students visited Delta's in-flight training department and were shown how flight attendants are trained to work on Delta flights in an emergency by in-flight training instructor Sarah Sageleon.
"In-flight training teaches the students how to put out fires, evacuate into a raft or pool ,scenario training or situation training and how to handle it as a crew," said Sageleon. "Anything that can happen on the ground can happen 35,000 feet in the air."
The program continued through the week and allowed students to operate an actual 172-A model aircraft and meet current Tuskegee Airmen as well.
"We want to continue to legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen after the last one is gone," said Bailey. "There is no rush, it's always best to be prepared."
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Dinner Tonight: Chicken with Roasted Cauliflower and Tahini Sauce Recipe
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I am a well-roasted cauliflower fanatic. It's one of my favorite vegetables to roast. Roasting can bring one of the most boring vegetables to life. Gorgeous nutty aromas start coming out, the color changes to brown, and the flavor transforms from flat to multidimensional. So I was all over this recipe from Saveur, which roasted the vegetable with a dusting of cumin in a 500°F oven and served it with a tahini sauce. My only question was how to make this more of a main dish.
Luckily I remembered that Barbara Kafka loves roasting at extreme temperatures, too. To my great luck, in her cookbook Roasting: A Simple Art, she advocates roasting chicken legs for the exact same amount of time as it takes to cook the cauliflower. It couldn't be much simpler. Load everything up on a baking sheet, set in the oven for 25 to 30 minutes, and toss occasionally. While that's heating up your place, whip up a simple tahini sauce and serve it along side.
- Yield:2 people
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- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 3 teaspoons ground cumin
- 1 head cauliflower, cored and cut into 2" florets
- 2 chicken legs
- kosher salt and black pepper
- 1/4 cup tahini
- 1 large clove garlic, finely minced (about 1 1/2 teaspoons)
- Juice of 1/2 lemon (about 1 tablespoon)
- Smoked paprika
Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat the oven to 500°F. Meanwhile, mix 2 tablespoons of the oil, 2 teaspoons of the cumin, the cauliflower, and a pinch of salt and pepper in a large bowl. Toss well, and then dump onto a baking sheet, leaving one end empty.
Rub the remaining oil onto the chicken legs. Season with the rest of the cumin, and a pinch of salt and pepper. Place on the open end of the baking sheet, skin side up.
Set the baking sheet in the oven and cook for 10 minutes. Flip the cauliflower and the chicken legs, and return the oven. Cook for 10 more minutes. Flip everything again, and then cook for a final 5 to 10 minutes. Remove when both the cauliflower and the chicken are nicely browned.
While chicken is cooking, make the tahini sauce. Mix together the tahini, garlic, lemon juice, and 1/2 cup of water in a bowl. Season with salt.
Serve the chicken and cauliflower with the tahini sauce. Sprinkle a little smoked paprika on top of everything.
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The term "homeopathy" is derived from the Greek words homeo (similar) and pathos (suffering or disease). The first basic principles of homeopathy were formulated by Samuel Hahnemann in the late 1700's. The practice of homeopathy is based on the belief that disease symptoms can be cured by small doses of substances which produce similar symptoms in healthy people.
The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) recognizes as official the drugs and standards in the Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States and its supplements (Sections 201 (g)(1) and 501 (b), respectively). Until recently, homeopathic drugs have been marketed on a limited scale by a few manufacturers who have been in business for many years and have predominantly served the needs of a limited number of licensed practitioners. In conjunction with this, homeopathic drug products historically have borne little or no labeling for the consumer.
Today the homeopathic drug market has grown to become a multimillion dollar industry in the United States, with a significant increase shown in the importation and domestic marketing of homeopathic drug products. Those products that are offered for treatment of serious disease conditions, must be dispensed under the care of a licensed practitioner. Other products, offered for use in self-limiting conditions recognizable by consumers, may be marketed OTC.
This document provides guidance on the regulation of OTC and prescription homeopathic drugs and delineates those conditions under which homeopathic drugs may ordinarily be marketed in the U.S. Agency compliance personnel should particularly consider whether a homeopathic drug is being offered for use (or promoted) significantly beyond recognized or customary practice of homeopathy. If so, priorities and procedures concerning the agency's policy on health fraud would apply. (See CPG 7150.10 "Health Fraud-Factors in Considering Regulatory Action" 6/5/87).
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Homeopathy The practice of treating the syndromes and conditions which constitute disease with remedies that have produced similar syndromes and conditions in healthy subjects.
Homeopathic Drug Any drug labeled as being homeopathic which is listed in the Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States (HPUS), an addendum to it, or its supplements. The potencies of homeopathic drugs are specified in terms of dilution, i.e., 1x (1/10 dilution), 2x (1/100 dilution), etc. Homeopathic drug products must contain diluents commonly used in homeopathic pharmaceutics. Drug products containing homeopathic ingredients in combination with non-homeopathic active ingredients are not homeopathic drug products.
Homeotherapeutics Involves therapy which utilizes drugs that are selected and administered in accordance with the tenets of homeopathy.
Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States (HPUS) A compilation of standards for source, composition, and preparation of homeopathic drugs. HPUS contains monographs of drug ingredients used in homeopathic treatment. It is recognized as an official compendium under Section 201(j) of the Act.
Compendium of Homeotherapeutics An addendum to the HPUS which contains basic premises and concepts of homeopathy and homeotherapeutics; specifications and standards of preparation, content, and dosage of homeopathic drugs; a description of the proving* process used to determine the eligibility of drugs for inclusion in HPUS; the technique of prescribing the therapeutic application of homeopathic drugs; and a partial list of drugs which meet the criteria of the proving process and are eligible for inclusion in HPUS and other homeopathic texts.
Extemporaneously Compounded OTC Products Those homeopathic drug products which are often prepared by dilution to many variations of potency from stock preparations, and which (1) have at least one OTC indication; (2) are prepared pursuant to consumers' oral or written requests; and (3) are not generally sold from retail shelves. Those products which are prescription drugs only cannot be provided to consumers as extemporaneously compounded OTC products but, may only be prepared pursuant to a prescription order.
* Health Fraud The deceptive promotion, advertisement, distribution or sale of articles, intended for human or animal use, that are represented as being effective to diagnose, prevent, cure, treat, or mitigate disease (or other conditions), or provide a beneficial effect on health, but which have not been scientifically proven safe and effective for such purposes. Such practices may be deliberate, or done without adequate knowledge or understanding of the article.*
*A proving is synonymous with the homeopathic procedure (identified in HPUS as a "Research Procedure") which is employed in healthy individuals to determine the dose of a drug sufficient to produce symptoms.
Section 201(g)(1) of the Act defines the term "drug" to mean articles recognized in the official United States Pharmacopeia (USP), the official Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States (HPUS), or official National Formulary (NF) or any supplement to them; and articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or the prevention of disease in man or other animals; articles (other than food) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals; and articles intended for use as a component of any articles specified in the above. Whether or not they are official homeopathic remedies, those products offered for the cure, mitigation, prevention, or treatment of disease conditions are regarded as drugs within the meaning of Section 201(g)(l) of the Act.
Homeopathic drugs generally must meet the standards for strength, quality, and purity set forth in the Homeopathic Pharmacopeia. Section 501(b) of the Act (21 U.S.C. 351) provides in relevant part
Whenever a drug is recognized in both the United States Pharmacopeia and the Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States it shall be subject to the requirements of the United States Pharmacopeia unless it is labeled and offered for sale as a homeopathic drug, in which case it shall be subject to the provisions of the Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States and not to those of the United States Pharmacopeia.
A product's compliance with requirements of the HPUS, USP, or NF does not establish that it has been shown by appropriate means to be safe, effective, and not misbranded for its intended use.
A guide to the use of homeopathic drugs (including potencies, dosing, and other parameters) may be found by referring to the following texts A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by John Henry Clarke, M.D., (3 volumes; Health Science Press) and A Clinical Repertory to the Dictionary of Materia Medica by John Henry Clarke, M.D. (Health Science Press). These references must be reviewed in conjunction with other available literature on these drug substances.
Homeopathic drug product labeling must comply with the labeling provisions of Sections 502 and 503 of the Act and Part 201 Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), as discussed below, with certain provisions applicable to extemporaneously compounded OTC products. Those drugs in bulk packages intended for manufacture or preparation of products, including those subsequently diluted to various potencies, must also comply with the provisions of Section 502 of the Act and Part 201 (21 CFR 201).
General Labeling Provisions
Name and Place of Business Each product must bear the name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor in conformance with Section 502(b) of the Act and 21 CFR 201.1.
Directions for Use Each drug product offered for retail sale must bear adequate directions for use in conformance with Section 502(f) of the Act and 21 CFR 201.5. An exemption from adequate directions for use under Section 503 is applicable only to prescription drugs.
Statement of Ingredients Ingredient information shall appear in accord with Section 502(e) of the Act and 21 CFR 201.10. Labeling must bear a statement of the quantity and amount of ingredient(s) in the product in conformance with Section 502(b) of the Act, as well as 21 CFR 201.10, expressed in homeopathic terms, e.g., lx, 2x.
Documentation must be provided to support that those products or ingredients which are not recognized officially in the HPUS, an addendum to it, or its supplements are generally recognized as homeopathic products or ingredients.
Established Name The product must be in conformance with Section 502(e)(1) of the Act and must bear an established name in accord with Section 502(e)(3) of the Act and 21 CFR 201.10. Many homeopathic products bear Latin names which correspond to listings in the HPUS. Since Section 502(c) of the Act and 21 CFR 201.15(c)(1) require that all labeling be in English, the industry is required to translate these names from Latin to their common English names as current labeling stocks are depleted, or by June 11, 1990, whichever occurs first. It is permissible for industry to include in the labeling both English and Latin names.
Container Size – Labeling Exemption For those products packaged in containers too small to accommodate a label bearing the required information, the labeling requirements provided under Section 502 of the Act and 21 CFR 201 may be met by placing information on the carton or outer container, or in a leaflet with the package, as designated in 21 CFR 201.10(i) for OTC drugs and in 21 CFR 201.100(b)(7) for prescription drugs. However, as a minimum, each product must also bear a label containing a statement of identity and potency, and the name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor.
Language The label and labeling must be in the English language as described and provided for under 21 CFR 201.15(c)(1), although it is permissible for industry to include foreign language in the labeling, as well.
Prescription Drugs
The products must comply with the General Labeling Provisions above, as well as the provisions for prescription drugs below.
Prescription Drug Legend All prescription homeopathic drug products must bear the prescription legend, "Caution Federal law prohibits dispensing without prescription," in conformance with Section 503(b)(1) of the Act.
Statement of Identity The label shall bear a statement of identity as provided for under 21 CFR 201.50.
Declaration of Net Quantity of Contents and Statement of Dosage The label shall bear a declaration of net quantity of contents as provided in 21 CFR 201.51 and a statement of the recommended or usual dosage as described under 21 CFR 201.55.
General Labeling Requirements The labeling shall contain the information described under 21 CFR 201.56 and 21 CFR 201.57. For all prescription homeopathic products, a package insert bearing complete labeling information for the homeopathic practitioner must accompany the product.
OTC Drugs
Product labeling must comply with the General Labeling Provisions above and the provisions for OTC drugs below, as current labeling stocks are depleted or by June 11, 1990, whichever occurs first.
Principal display Panel The labeling must comply with the principal display panel provision under 21 CFR 201.62.
Statement of Identity The label shall contain a statement of identity as described in 21 CFR 201.61.
Declaration of Net Quantity of Contents The label shall conform to the provisions for declaring net quantity of contents under 21 CFR 201.62.
Indications for Use The labeling for those products offered for OTC retail sale must bear at least one major OTC indication for use, stated in terms likely to be understood by lay persons. For extemporaneously compounded OTC products, the labeling must bear at least one major OTC indication for use, stated in terms likely to be understood by lay persons. For combination products, the labeling must bear appropriate indications(s) common to the respective ingredients. Industry must comply with the provisions concerning indications for use as current labeling stocks are depleted, or by June 11, 1990, whichever occurs first.
Directions for Use See the General Labeling Provisions above.
Warnings OTC homeopathic drugs intended for systemic absorption, unless specifically exempted, must bear a warning statement in conformance with 21 CFR 201.63(a). Other warnings, such as those for indications conforming to those in OTC drug final regulations, are required as appropriate.
Prescription/OTC Status
The criteria specified in Section 503(b) of the Act apply to the determination of prescription status for all drug products, including homeopathic drug products. If the HPUS specifies a distinction between nonprescription (over-the-counter (OTC)) and prescription status of products which is based on strength (e.g., 30x) – and which is more restrictive than Section 503(b) of the Act – the more stringent criteria will apply. Homeopathic products intended solely for self-limiting disease conditions amenable to self-diagnosis (of symptoms) and treatment may be marketed OTC. Homeopathic products offered for conditions not amenable to OTC use must be marketed as prescription products.
Home Remedy Kits Homeopathic home remedy kits may contain several products used for a wide range of conditions amenable to OTC use. When limited space does not allow for a list of those conditions on the labels of the products, the required labeling must appear in a pamphlet or similar informational piece which is enclosed in the kits. However, as a minimum, each product must also bear a label containing a statement of identity and potency.
Other Requirements
All firms which manufacture, prepare, propagate, compound, or otherwise process homeopathic drugs must register as drug establishments in conformance with Section 510 of the Act and 21 CFR 207. Further, homeopathic drug products must be listed in conformance with the sections above. (Note For a given product, variations in package size and potency are not required to be listed on separate forms 2657 but instead, may be listed on the same form). Homeopathic drug products must be packaged in accordance with Section 502(g) of the Act. Homeopathic drug products must be manufactured in conformance with current good manufacturing practice, Section 501(a)(2)(B) of the Act and 21 CFR 211. However, due to the unique nature of these drug products, some requirements of 21 CFR 211 are not applicable, as follows
Section 211.137 (Expiration dating) specifically exempts homeopathic drug products from expiration dating requirements.
Section 211.165 (Testing and release for distribution) In the Federal Register of April 1, 1983 (48 FR 14003), the Agency proposed to amend 21 CFR 211.165 to exempt homeopathic drug products from the requirement for laboratory determination of identity and strength of each active ingredient prior to release for distribution.
Pending a final rule on this exemption, this testing requirement will not be enforced for homeopathic drug products.
Those firms marketing homeopathic drugs which are not in compliance with the conditions described above will be considered for regulatory follow-up. <> The Office of Compliance, HFD-304, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, should be consulted before *warning* letters are issued.
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Startup Studio Science Hires Digital Veteran Jason Rapp
Science, the Los Angeles-based startup "studio," has a big new slug of funding from Hearst. And now the company has someone to help it spend that money: Digital veteran Jason Rapp has come aboard as the company's managing director.
Rapp, whose last position was president at how-to video maker Mahalo, is supposed to "find and develop new opportunities for the Science portfolio and offer strategic counsel to the firm."
Science is best known for funding and launching e-commerce companies like Dollar Shave Club.
Rapp's e-commerce experience includes a stint running Gifts.com for Barry Diller's IAC conglomerate. Rapp also worked on M&A at IAC, and had a similar role at the New York Times.


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text: Wellness Health & Well-being Swine Flu: Are Your Kids Safe? By Jenn Savedge Writer University of Strathclyde Ithaca College Jenn Savedge is an environmental author and lecturer. She's a former national park ranger who has written three books on eco-friendly living our editorial process Jenn Savedge Updated January 15, 2020 Should your kid get up close and personal with a pig?. (Photo: KnOizKi [CC BY-ND 2.0]/Flickr) Share Twitter Pinterest Email Wellness Health & Well-being Clean Beauty Confirmed cases of swine flu, a virus that normally infects pigs, have been detected in people in Mexico, the U.S., New Zealand, Canada, and the U.K. Earlier today, President Obama said that the recent outbreak of swine flu is a matter of concern but "not a cause for alarm." He went on to say that there are now 40 confirmed cases of the illness in the U.S....that's twice the number currently reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Around the world, health officials are scrambling to see whether infections have occurred in their countries, and gearing up to prevent its spread. So what do these rising numbers mean for you? It's still too soon to know for sure just how bad this outbreak will be. The good news is that for the most part, health officials are erring on the side of caution to prevent the disease's spread. Just this morning, health officials in Sacramento closed a local middle school because a student there is ill with what may be the new strain of influenza. Here's what you need to know to keep your kids safe from swine flu: How can I tell if my child has swine flu? The incubation period for swine flu is short...about 48 to 72 hours. After that period, people who are infected may experience fevers over 100 degrees, body aches, headaches, cough, runny nose, and sometimes, nausea and diarrhea. In addition to the symptoms mentioned above, children who are breathing abnormally fast or slowly may be affected. These symptoms are similar to the standard strain of influenza, so it can difficult to distinguish one from the other. When in doubt, contact your health care provider. Is there a vaccine? There is no vaccine currently that exactly matches the swine flu. Health officials are still trying to determine if the virus is sufficiently similar to circulating forms of influenza that are covered by current vaccines. If this is the case, these vaccines may offer some limited protection from swine flu. In addition, if you were one of the millions of people in the U.S. who were vaccinated against swine flu during the 1976 pandemic, you may get some limited protection from the current strain of the virus. Vaccine makers are working on putting together a vaccine to counter the the strain of swine flu currently in circulation, but this process can take as long as 3 to 6 months. How can I protect my family? Good hygiene and caution are your best defense against swine flu. Remind kids (and yourself) to wash hands frequently and cover coughs and sneezes. Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth. At school, teachers and administrators can eliminate shared hand-held items, such as hall passes, until the threat of a pandemic passes. Is it safe to eat pork? The short answer to this question is yes, it is safe to eat pork. For more detailed information, check out MNN Food blogger Robin Shreeve's Swine flu: Can you get it from pork?


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Videos | May 27, 2011
Aquarius Update: Episode 3
The Aquarius observatory is placed on top of its rocket and is readied for launch.
Transcript:I'm here at Vandenberg Air Force Base in southern California. This is where we launch Aquarius from. The place: Space Launch Complex-2, or SLC-2, as we call it. Over the few days, we have put a bag over the spacecraft so it remains clean and then we put the entire spacecraft into a canister, or a can, as we call it, and it's a very big can. It's about 30 feet tall.
We now put it on a truck and start it moving up north to the SLC-2 facility. This 20-mile journey takes us 5 hours going at a very slow pace in the middle of the night, and engineers have been working day and night to make this possible.
We appear here at SLC-2, Space Launch Complex-2 early in the morning at the base of the tower. The canister is slowly lifted up to the top of the tower.
It takes about 45 minutes to take the canister up and put it into the right place. Once the canister is on top, we bolt it on top of the rocket where it's going to sit until we again test it to make sure everything is working right.
This is Amit Sen bringing you an update from the Aquarius launch site, from SLC-2, Vandenberg, California.


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Indoor tanning ban moves to Conn. governor
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A Connecticut bill banning young people from using indoor tanning services is moving to the governor's desk.
The state House of Representatives voted Thursday, 117-21, to pass legislation forbidding anyone under age 17 from using an indoor tanning device.
Currently, people under age 16 must receive written parental consent to receive tanning services. This proposal would eliminate the exception for parental consent.
Any operator who knowingly allows someone under 17 to use a tanning bed would face a fine of up to $100.
The American Cancer Society says ultraviolent radiation exposure during childhood and adolescence increases skin cancer risks.
But the American Suntanning Association, which opposes the bill, says the bill will encourage teenagers to use unregulated home equipment.
The Senate passed the bill unanimously last week.


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A high percentage of all digital photos are self-portraits taken at an arm's length, as somebody must have realized during a focus group. This results in a similarly high number of pictures featuring only disembodied arms, foreheads, and half-faces.
In the hopes of ending this unfortunate phenomenon, Samsung has introduced the TL220 and TL225 DualView models, the first cameras with LCD displays on both sides of the camera so that the narcissi...uh, self-portraitists among us can capture every pouty-face pose we've ever struck. The concept seems so obvious now that somebody has done it, and in retrospect, it's surprising that no manufacturers attempted anything like this before.
For a first try, Samsung executed the dual-LCD concept well. Teenage girls everywhere can sleep easy knowing that they can totally take flawless photos for their Facebook profiles with every click. That said, I'm lukewarm on the DualView as a whole. Several aspects are underwhelming or downright frustrating, which is a shame considering the price tag. Read on for more:
Note: I tested the TL225. This review can also apply to the TL220, which has a smaller rear LCD screen. Other than that, they're very similar.
Mirror, Mirror, On The Camera
Samsung markets the front LCD as a slick, multi-functional feature, but it's really just a mirror—an electronic mirror that takes all the guesswork and geometry out of self-portraiture, but still a fancy mirror. That said, it's a great idea and it works well. Just tap the front screen, make sure you and your friends' faces are in the frame, and click. It's that simple. Every now and then, I ran into problems activating the front screen by touch so I had to flip it around and turn it on with a menu command on the rear screen, but this was uncommon. For the most part, this feature was a charm to use and my mug was squarely in the center of every arms-length shot I took.
As for the other front-screen features, I could take them or leave them. Well, I'd probably leave them. Children's Mode displays a little cartoon on the front LCD, presumably so that shy little kids giggle for the camera. I don't spend much time around kids, so I can't say if this works, but I don't think I'd be impressed if I was still in diapers.
Designers also included a numbered countdown that appears during Timer Mode. That's a good use of the screen, but like any other camera with a timer, the TL225 also has an LED that flickers for a few seconds before the camera snaps a picture—the same few seconds that the countdown flashes. It's just redundant.
Maybe I'm being a bit too harsh, because for the most part, the front screen is a nice touch and a charm to use. I can imagine a bright future for this feature, especially if they find some other useful functions for it.
Cold To The Touch
To complement the flashy, forward-thinking, front LCD, the TL225 features a flashy, forward-thinking, 3.5-inch rear touchscreen LCD. All the menu and manual adjustments are controlled through the screen and the body has just four physical buttons for the shutter, playback mode, zoom, and power. It even has a haptic (shake) response to any input.
It's a sexy design for sure, but some downsides become apparent after the "wow" factor wears off. Too often when I tried to take a self-portrait, my fingers inadvertently brushed against the rear screen and activated some feature or menu command while I was posing. It took a conscious effort to keep my chubby digits clear of the display, and it must have looked I was hand model holding it up for a press photo. Annoying, to say the least.
When I actually meant to use the touchscreen, it mostly worked fine, though I still managed to trigger the wrong menu more often than I would have liked. I ran into a similar problem with a touchscreen camcorder I reviewed recently, so I'm not sold on the concept just yet. Touchscreens are the wave of the future for most personal gadgets, I suppose, but for now, I still feel more comfortable with actual physical buttons on cameras.
Flashy Exterior, Average Interior
Images are pretty good as long as you remember that the $350 price tag is an early adopter fee for the design rather than the lens. That said, the photos came out fairly well for a point-and-shoot. There are enough manual controls to find at least a decent setting in tough conditions, while the preset scene modes are effective as well.
A few other neat options are built in as well, including a mode that snaps three consecutive pictures with slightly different exposure and aperture settings. This came in handy in some odd lighting conditions where I wasn't sure what setting to choose—I could just pick the best-looking photo of the three.
Video mode is par for the compact-cam course; nothing much to celebrate here, though it does shoot in 720p HD and supports the front LCD.
In general, Samsung make great products, but they're still new to the digital camera marketplace. With the DualView cameras, they're doing what a nascent brand should do: make something that stands out from the pack. It's a novel and mostly well-executed concept. But it needs some polishing before I can recommend that you drop this much money on a camera with such average image quality.


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